Horst Stöcker (born 1952) is a German theoretical physicist and Judah M. Eisenberg Professor Laureatus at the Goethe University Frankfurt.
After Abitur 1971,[1] Stöcker studied physics, chemistry, mathematics and philosophy at the Goethe University Frankfurt, where he got his Dr. phil.nat.
[2] Stöcker joined the faculty of physics and astronomy at Michigan State University and the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, NSCL, in 1982.
[2][4] Horst Stöcker was the scientific chairman and CEO (director general) at the Darmstadt GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, 2007–2015.
[5][4] In 2008 Stöcker was elected vice-president of Helmholtz Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren HGF [de] for the Research Area "Struktur der Materie", 2008, and was reelected 2010–2012.